Revealed: What life on Earth would look like if Yellowstone's supervolcano erupted

Daily Mail ^ | 2/22/25 | William Hunter

[week 71]

Slumbering five miles beneath the surface of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming is a timebomb more than 640,000 years in the making.

The Yellowstone supervolcano is a vast reservoir of magma with the potential to unleash a category eight eruption over 100 times more powerful than Krakatoa.

Thankfully, Yellowstone or any supervolcano of its size has never erupted within recorded human history.

But now, artificial intelligence (AI) reveals exactly what that would look like.

[Poser]

Cue Jimmy Buffet

Volcano!

[Nervous Tick]

>> For those fearful, Try Jesus

Excellent advice!

[delta7]

>> For those fearful, Try Jesus

Excellent advice!
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Amen brother! His Peace is indescribable.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Revealed: What life on Earth would look like if Yellowstone's supervolcano erupted"

There would be no need for the Daily Mail. No need for Google's ImageFX AI image generator, and maybe, if the world was lucky, someone would take ACTUAL photos of it, rather than dream up more worst-case scenarios. MailOnline would be off line.

Thankfully we have William Hunter's astute fear-mongering. Though most recently this astute individual wrote about "Scientists reveal how to pick out the cleanest cubicle in ANY public toilet (and why it is different for men and women)."

A favorite from Hunter could be "The hermit crab forced to live in a toothpaste lid: Heartbreaking images show the devastating impact of Earth's pollution - as Donald Trump signs order to bring back plastic straws"

Yup. Trump's fault.

[Colorado Doug]

ping for later

[Big Red Badger]

“Feearful?-Try Jesus!”
.
Yuppers!
The King of the Universe who Overcame
Death,Hell and The Grave provides the
Only Way to Man’s Ultimate Reality of Reuniting with Our Loving Creator!

[fso301]

artificial intelligence (AI) reveals exactly what that would look like

Trees should not be standing vertical on such a new uplift.

[Carry_Okie]

Wouldn’t an oil bath filter work better for that?

[PIF]

Not to mention the ash fall on roves will soon collapse the strongest ones.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Sounds like an interesting read. Unfortunately I have a lot of Bigfoot videos to watch, and finish
re-reading my Carlos Castaneda collection. Plus I'm working on my Judge Crater theory. And
then there is always Dr. Steven Greer tugging at my time schedule.

I'm afraid mega-volcano catastrophe events are just going to have to wait their turn.

[desertsolitaire]

If someone wanted to, for any reason, cause the Yellowstone caldera to erupt sooner and non-spontaneously, is that within Man’s power to do? Sufficient kiloton destructive device(s) dropped or drilled and activated at fault lines or old weak spots in cooled lava flow? Just scientifically curious.
Also wondered if the Chinese themselves, or another actor decided to destroy the Three Gorges Dam there, how big a deal would that really be on the ground there, so to speak. Flooding downstream some certainly, but catastrophic?

[FatherofFive]

A big Carrington event would be nearly as destructive to humanity and is much more immediately likely. An asteroid strike would be next on the list. Both can be mitigated with current technology by degree. The Yellowstone caldera cannot.

It would seem we could drill holes to relieve the pressure. Another task for Elon's Boring company. Lots of holes. The cost would be a fraction of the destruction

[PIF]

Mt Samalas eruption had a VEI of 7. St Helenes had a VEI of 5.

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“Dr McGraw adds that ‘theories of extreme global impacts have already been largely debunked.’”
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McGraw is an idiot - ask the dinosaurs, ask the mega fauna.

[PIF]

Also wondered if the Chinese themselves, or another actor decided to destroy the Three Gorges Dam there, how big a deal would that really be on the ground there, so to speak. Flooding downstream some certainly, but catastrophic?

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Not as bad as you might imagine for a county with over one billion people - only 7 cites washed away with 400 million dead. No biggy.

[PIF]

It would seem we could drill holes to relieve the pressure
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So relieving the pressure on sq miles of pressurized magma would be do biggy?

How big is the magma chamber under Yellowstone?
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-big-magma-chamber-under-yellowstone

[Robert DeLong]

We are all gonna die. 😟

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Worked fine on my 1968 VW van when I was driving it around NW Oregon after the Mount St. Helens eruption. I did change the motor oil more frequently than usual for several months.

[delta7]

The King of the Universe who Overcame
Death,Hell and The Grave provides the
Only Way to Man’s Ultimate Reality of Reuniting with Our Loving Creator!
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Amen, we need more “ God” on FR…how can one be a “ Conservative “ and not believe? The word “ Jesus” is filled with power that overcomes all darkness.

Pray for Revival.

[delta7]

We are all gonna die.
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Amen, the only question is where will you be seated, in the smoking section, or the non- smoking section? Eternity is a long, long time.

[crz]

They dug up another “expert” to give his opinion.

Yellowstone wont erupt in the next thousand years. There isnt enough eruptable magma in the chamber.

If an eruption did happen, it’ll be of hydrodynamic in nature. There has been numerous smaller events in history at that system.

The deadliest event in the last 250 years wasnt Tanbora or Krakatoa. It was Laki. A vei 4, or there abouts, and is responsible for having killed millions of people worldwide.

The latest, Tonga, realeased enough water vapor into the upper atmosphere that it has caused global weather pattern disruption. We are in about the middle of the 8 to 10 year period of that disruption. BTW, it took just weeks for that water vapor to cover the globe.

There is three ways a human extinction event will happen on earth. Hyper volcanic eruption-BTW if anyone calls a volcano a “super volcano” they dont know what the hell they are talking about. Anyway, global extinction. Hyper vocanic event, extraterrestrial-meteoric, or nuclear war.
Wanna bet which is a more likely event to bet on? I would take nuclear war.